From the iconic award-winning artist and designer a graphic memoir of leaving Cuba becoming
American and fighting for freedom here and there.'Exhilarating immensely powerful gorgeous'
PHILIPPE SANDS'Belongs in the pantheon that MAUS built' PRINT MAGAZINE'Shocking brilliant
soul-shattering . . . this book is so good' CHIP KIDDWhen Fidel Castro opened the Mariel
harbour to let Cubans sail for America Edel Rodriguez and his family took their chance. From
the town of El Gabriel to the Mariel port to a rickety shrimping boat bound for Florida they
joined the 1980 boatlift becoming 'worms' as Castro called the departing Cubans.Years later
Edel Rodriguez has become one of the most prominent political artists of our age hailed for
his iconic work on the cover of Time and on jumbotrons around the world. In stunning visual
detail Worm tells his story - of a boyhood in Cold War Cuba of a family's courage and
displacement and of coming of age as an artist activist and American.
